The KDE
project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.7,
a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and
powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. This release brings a renewed focus to KDE-PIM applications.KAddressBook,KOrganizer andKAlarm received
attention with bugfixes, whileKMail additionally
witnessed the addition of new features and improvements with both interface work and
IMAP handling: it can manage IMAP quotas, and copy and move all folders. Read on for more details.

KDE now
supports 65 languages,
making it available to more people than most non-Free
software and can be easily extended to support more languages by communities who wish
to contribute to the Open Source project.

Several other applications have seen feature improvements:

KPDF shows tooltips for links when
hovering over them, correctly displays more complex PDF files (like thisFirefox
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Umbrello now can generate and
export C# Code and has added Java 5 generics support.

KDevelop gets a major version upgrade
to version 3.4.1. New features include much-improved Code Completion and
Navigation, a more reliable debugger interface, Qt 4 support and better
Ruby and KDE 4 development support.

In addition to the new features there were many bug fixes across the board,
especially in the Edutainment
and Games packages andKopete. Kopete also received a major performance improvement for its chat windows.

As KDE users have come to expect, this new release includes continued work
on KHTML and KJS, KDE's HTML and Javascript engines. A new and interesting
usability feature in KHTML makes the mouse pointer indicate if a link wants
to open a new browser window or not.

Thanks for another release and kudos to all the maintainers for, well, maintaining KDE 3.5 despite the effort to get KDE 4 out of the door :-)

Hopefully KDE 3.5 will receive further updates in the future as I suspect that business owners and governments will hesitate to move to KDE 4 for some time and with an almost feature-freeze the current branch is shaping up to be a rock-solid working environment.

I was a little disappointed that kmail still does not support web.de email accounts via IMAP. With all the announced fixes I was hoping that this one would be among them. Ah well, one can still hope that one day I'll get rid of the behemoth that is Thunderbird ;-)

Gentoo specific problem, as it works for me on other distros. Bug your packager or check if gentoo has a KDE forum someplace. I think they have an irc channel on freenode, #gentoo-kde or somesuch, but I could be wrong.

I have kubuntu feisty 64bit edition and I could not replicate this bug under 3.5.6 or 3.5.7. Just wanted to give you that as a datapoint. I wonder why some have this as a 64bit only issue but I am definitely running a 64bit compiled kde under a 64bit linux system without these issues. Got to love tracking down weird bugs. Just so you know I tested fish and sftp to another linux server that I have.

I would pleased if Kmail would allow me to forward an HTML mail. Right now, the only way I can find to do so is to forward a received HTML email is to do so as an attachment. But that retains the originating senders address. I don't want that, I want to respect their privacy. We have enough #@&! spam already without needlessly exposing people's email addresses.

If forwarding as an attachment stripped the headers, perhaps as a separate option, that would suffice.